The aforementioned products manufactured at nationalized factories and plants and other enterprises, as well as at enterprises registered with the organs of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, are transferred to Komprod by the corresponding Glavki, Centers, etc., on the basis of utilization plans (art. 7). Remaining goods are procured by Komprod.

For the supply of goods and proper distribution of products, a network of state and cooperative wholesale warehouses and retail Soviet and cooperative shops is utilized and organized. Wholesale warehouses and retail shops of the cooperatives remain under their management, but under the control of Komprod (art. 15).

From the day this decree comes into force, no central and local state institutions, except Komprod and its local organs, have the right to take measures to regulate trade in products covered by this decree, nor to issue prohibitions or grant permissions for the import and export within the country of products encompassed by this decree.

Permissions issued by Komprod and its organs for the export of these products from any locality and for their transportation within the bounds of Soviet Russia are final, and no organs of power have the right to demand for the execution of such orders and permissions of Komprod any other permissions whatsoever.

Requisition and confiscation of wholesale trading warehouses and nationalization of the corresponding firms may be carried out only by Komprod or by organizations authorized by it for this purpose.

Requisition, confiscation, and municipalization of retail shops and firms are carried out only by local organs of Komprod, with the approval of the Executive Committee.

All products for personal consumption and domestic use, registered with accounts or requisitioned by whatever institutions, except the Supreme Council of the National Economy and its organs, are immediately surrendered to the account and disposal of Komprod.

The utilization plan (art. 2) includes: 1) the determination of what quantity of products is intended for export; what for reserves, what for industrial consumption, and what for distribution among the population. 2) The establishment of the price of the product—both factory, wholesale, and retail prices; 3) the plan for distribution of all products designated for the population.

All existing excise duties are abolished. To the price at which the Supreme Council of the National Economy delivers the product to Komprod, a levy in favor of the state may be added.

In each province, the Provincial Organs of Komprod no later than January 1, 1919, approve a sufficiently dense